| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 24 Mar 2001 at 10:15:29 |
| Subject: | Re: Help A1500 |
On 24-Mar-01, John Kerrison wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Ive just been given an old 1500. It has an Octogen Hard Card Probaly
> 20-60meg HD and some kind of memory card. It doesnt boot up, It shows
> a Green Screen at power up and then goes yellow then red and finaly
> black with red stripes scrolling!
> Although there is Power going to the floppy disks, they appear to be
> dead.
> Apparently it hasnt been powered up for a number of years.
Check the motherboard to see if the clock battery has leaked and damaged
it. This isn't such a big risk with an A2000 as with an A4000, because
the layout is more sensible, but it's still a risk. You can get a
replacement battery from Maplin.
Press all chips firmly into their sockets.
Take out all Zorro cards and try to get it to display the "Put In A
Disk" animation. Then try a Workbench floppy (suitable for whatever ROM
version it has).
Then try the Octagon, and finally the RAM card.
Regards
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